The Brighton Post
Player ratings18 Dec 2034
Yankuba Minteh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Tempers go at Brighton
Ferdi Kadıoğlu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Kaoru Mitoma falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match16 Dec 2034
Brighton come up short against Aston Villa
Aston Villa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Brajan Gruda has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brighton will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad18 Dec 2034
Maxim De Cuyper gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market18 Dec 2034
Georginio Rutter linked with a move away
The name of Georginio Rutter keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Brighton say nothing, which says plenty.
Market18 Dec 2034
Tommy Watson runs his contract down
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Brighton money.
Boardroom18 Dec 2034
Brighton keep producing them
89 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- Market Nathan Bennett placed on the list
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Kaoru Mitoma
- Boardroom The Brighton board put their names to it